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botanist who has visited Penzance has, ahnost as a 

 matter of course, made it a point of duty to call on 

 Mr. Ralfs, who may be regarded as the doyen of 

 English botany. 



ASTRONOMY. 

 By John Browning, F.R.A.S. 



AT the meeting of the Royal Astronomical Society 

 held on June 14th, Mr. Taylor read a paper on 

 ithe spectrum of Uranus. On May the i6th, broad 

 ilutings were detected in the spectrum of the planet. 



There were four dark bands in the orange-green, 

 blue and yellow. There were no solar or narrow 

 lines visible in the spectrum. In a later observation 

 .ten dark bands were noted and their position measured, 

 and also the position of several bright lines. 



A letter from Dr. Huggins was read, in which he 

 said that on the 3rd of June, with an exposure of two 

 hours, he got a fine photograph of the spectrum 

 extending to Min the ultra-violet. In this photograph 

 all the chief Fraunhofer lines are distinctly visible. 



In August, Mercury will be an evening star at the 

 end of the month, not well situated for observation. 



Venus will be a morning star. 



Mars will be a morning star. 



Jupiter will be in Sagittarius. 



.Saturn will be too near the sun for observation. 



On August 7th there will be an occultation of 

 Jupiter by the moon. The disappearance will take 

 place at 7 hrs. 4 min. and the reappearance at 8 hrs. 

 I min. 



There will be no other occuitations of interest during 

 •the month. 



Rising, Southing, and Setting of the Principal Planets 



SOME NEW AND LITTLE-KNOWN 



ROTIFERS. 



By W. Barnett Burn, M.D. 



No. 2. — StEPHANOPS INTERMEDIUS, SP. NOV. 



CHARACTERS : Lorica fyriformis, with a neck ; 

 prolonged behind into three ovate spines ; foot 

 without a spine (Fig. 119). There seem to be several 

 of these small rotifers, differing in slight particulars, 



Fig 3. 



Fig. \i<j.—SteJ>hanop intermedirts. 



scarcely deserving to be separated into distinct 

 species ; and I intended to include this one in my 

 papers on " Little-known Rotifers," under the head 



